Enoch

A question to my theologically-literate friends.

We all know the story of Enoch. The writer of Hebrews suggests that he
never died, but "God took him."

My understanding from a pastor I very much respect is that this idea was
a new one in the early A.D. and that it had never occurred to any of the
Jewish writers before that. As far as they were concerned, Enoch just
died at an earlier age than his contemporaries.

I challenged my friend but he was pretty sure nobody had thought about
that possibility prior to the writer of Hebrews. Absence of evidence is
not conclusive, of course, but in this case it might be persuasive.

Anyone know?

Burgy

Ubi Caritas

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Received on Thu Mar 25 10:00:56 2004